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Article: Battersea Power Station is upgraded to become grade II* listed building.
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- October 4, 2007
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M2 PRESSWIRE-4 October 2007-UK Government: Battersea Power Station is upgraded to become grade II* listed building(C)1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
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Culture Minister, Margaret Hodge, has today accepted the advice of English Heritage, the Government's statutory advisor on historic buildings, to upgrade Battersea Power Station listing from Grade II to Grade II*.
Battersea Power Station was the one of the first generation of large coal-fired electrical generating facilities set up in England as part of the National Grid power distribution system. The building was designed by architect J Theo Halliday, and Giles Gilbert Scott -who ...